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Google Ad Manager

Overview

What is Google Ad Manager?

Google Ad Manager is a platform for publishers that combines the former DoubleClick for Publishers and DoubleClick Ad Exchange products.

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Recent Reviews

Google Ads is my personal fav!

7 out of 10
June 16, 2022
I use Google Ads Manager to advertise our products. We tried to use paid search campaigns with still images of the gas industry. It was …
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Google Ad MEHnager

5 out of 10
April 22, 2020
Incentivized
We use Google Ads Manager to manage ad campaigns on Google for the ad campaigns that our company runs on Google. Google Ads Manager is …
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Popular Features

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  • Ad campaign creation (33)
    8.7
    87%
  • Display advertising (32)
    8.6
    86%
  • Ad performance reports (33)
    8.4
    84%
  • Ad deployment (33)
    8.4
    84%
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What is Google Ad Manager?

Google Ad Manager is a platform for publishers that combines the former DoubleClick for Publishers and DoubleClick Ad Exchange products.

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Features

Ad Network Integration

Integration with main ad networks, and exchanges to make accurate media buys.

7.6
Avg 7.4

Ad Campaigns

Features related to creating and deploying ad campaigns.

8.7
Avg 7.8

Ad Reporting & Analytics

Features related to reporting on and analyzing advertisements.

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Product Details

What is Google Ad Manager?

Google Ad Manager is a platform for publishers that combines the former DoubleClick for Publishers and DoubleClick Ad Exchange products.

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Reviews and Ratings

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Ben Sottek | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use Google Ads Manager to advertise for various clients in my book of business. We primarily use paid search campaigns with less emphasis on video and display campaigns. This is due to the goals of the clients and the user intent that we can tap into with search campaigns.
  • Bulk edits and changes streamline management of large accounts
  • Reporting options are robust and easy to use
  • Provides the largest market share of search marketing in the world
  • More visibility into smart-bidding algorithms
  • Optimization recommendations other than spend more
  • More transparency in search terms reports
Google Ads is well suited to advertisers that operate in a space with healthy market awareness. If they are advertising a product or service that users are generally aware of and search for, Google ads campaigns could be successful. For those that have a new or extremely niche offering, there may not be enough search volume to justify the effort.
Alex Chaidaroglou | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are using Google Ad Manager to drive leads and clients to our website. There are different features inside the platform for many uses depending on what you want to achieve, your budget and the competitiveness of your industry.<br><br>Google Ad Manager is used only by the marketing department.<br><br>It makes it very easy to aggregate different channels and deploy text and image ads.
  • Customizable dashboard.
  • Instant feedback and notifications.
  • Scalable ads.
  • Some initial learning curve
  • Some features are hard to understand
If you are looking to scale text and display ads, Google Ad Manager is a solid choice, as it helps scale your ads. It combines different exchanges such as DoubleClick, Adsense, AdExchange and third party exchanges which gives it a lot of options, scale and ability to optimize.

If you are a small business with [a] limited budget or knowledge it might not be an ideal fit.
April 22, 2020

Google Ad MEHnager

Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Google Ads Manager to manage ad campaigns on Google for the ad campaigns that our company runs on Google. Google Ads Manager is only being used our marketing department not the entire organization. The problem that Google Ads Manager solves it allows us to manage our Google ads for use on Google.
  • Manages Ads
  • Single Sign On
  • Is Google
  • Confusing interface
  • Poor documentation
  • High learning curve
Some possible scenarios of when you would want to use Google Ad Manager is when you want to run ads on Google. It provides a central place of managing these ads for Google. It would be less appropraite if you wanted to run ads on another service, like say Facebook or a private website.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our company uses Google Ad Manager to sell and monetize digital advertising on our site to outside clients. It allows us to control the size of the ad units, creative assets, impression goals, and ad placements to support our clients' KPIs. Additionally, we use Google Ad Manager to provide clients with a reliable performance metrics to help with campaign management and optimizations.
  • Real-time and accurate performance metrics (impressions and CTRs)
  • Targeting capabilities
  • Control over creative assets and ad unit sizes
  • Complex product, big learning curve for beginners
Google Ad Manager is used by our Ad-ops team on a daily basis to create and manage our digital campaigns for ads that run on our site and direct users to a client's website in order to generate traffic and sales.
October 02, 2019

Simple and Effective

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Google Ad Manager as a tool in our marketing campaigns for the company when we are running ads to drive traffic to various landing pages optimized for conversions or when we drive traffic to our main website. GAM is a good overview high-level snapshot of where we stand in our campaigns.
  • GAM makes the data analyzation process seamless, they offer many different display types/charts and even allow us to run algorithms/machine learning on the data.
  • GAM is constantly updated and has a strong release schedule for bugfixes, maintenance, and new features. Google seems to really care about this project.
  • The reporting functionality is robust, allowing multiple query types that are even friendly to non-developers.
  • Speed - I know its a website that's doing lots of data calculations, but there has to be a way to make this better. Even using enterprise internet solutions I have had a decent amount of lag from page inception to data displaying.
  • API - When I wanted to pull a report to display on a backend system for a web application, the API was a bit complicated for doing a simple data extraction REST API pull.
  • User Management - This has been a difficult aspect/pain point for us when we utilize sub-contractors or take on different clientele. Having different user permissions (or explaining how to implement it easily) would be a huge plus for us going forward.
If you are already utilizing the Google Ecosystem for your products/company, then this solution just makes sense. Google allows many of their apps to talk with each other, and if you don't mind making a deal with the devil, this solution would be your best bet for PPC/SEM. Lastly, though my company is by no means at scale, I have been told by many people that GAM works very well at scale when driving towards the enterprise level.
Blake Baron | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use it in partnership with our agency in managing our suite of ads that lead potential customers to our website. Our most effective use is in retargeting ads that deliver to customers who have abandoned the shopping cart process. We find the most effective ROI via this method for ad spend.
  • Bid suggestions via machine learning: they save us a lot of time running analysis.
  • Dashboards allow for effective turnkey presentations when reporting results to management.
  • Google Ad Manager integrates with Analytics and provides a solution with easy setup.
  • Only really suitable for business-class internet connections. Good luck loading the data on your phone without 80+ Mbps down.
  • Could have a more robust API: we've had to make a lot of, "hackey" in house solutions to pull the data into our marketing automation software.
It's a Google product, so it's inherently easy to use and intuitive from a functionality standpoint. You can be up and running in no time if you've used literally any other type of software ever. Web-based software allows you to access it from anywhere (albeit slowly, depending on your connection).
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